Marco Odermatt (SUI\/St\u00f6ckli) took a huge step towards securing his third successive Audi FIS World Cup Downhill Crystal Globe with a near flawless performance in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.<\/p>\n
With the pressure on after a gold-free Olympic campaign, Odermatt was back to his very best, finding a touch down the demanding Kandahar course that no one could match. The roar in the finish area with arms outstretched showed just what a fourth Downhill win of the season, alongside the accompanying 100 points, meant.<\/p>\n
Last season Alexis Monney (SUI\/St\u00f6ckli) was one of those who pushed Odermatt all the way in the Downhill Globe race, but having struggled to find his best this time around, the 26-year-old\u2019s efforts on Saturday signalled a welcome return to form. Matching Odermatt through the steep top section, the margins were tight with only a slight error on the lower flats dropping Monney back into second, 0.04 seconds behind his teammate.<\/p>\n
A third red-suited skier on the podium was perhaps no surprise for a nation that has dominated the speed events of late, but the identity was. <\/p>\n
In his previous five World Cup Downhills, Stefan Rogentin (SUI\/Fischer) had finished outside the top-24 four times, with 14th in Wengen his best result. But out the gate third, the 31-year-old powered back to his best to claim a third Downhill podium of his career.<\/p>\n
All eyes were on Franjo von Allmen (SUI\/Head) when the recently crowned three-time Olympic champion pushed out from the gate as the last of the top seeds. But a wild ride, after which the 24-year-old complained he was \u201ctoo direct\u201d, left von Allmen down in sixth and barely holding on to his dream of a first ever Crystal Globe.<\/p>\n
Vincent Kriechmayr (AUT\/Head) and Giovanni Franzoni (ITA\/Rossignol) tied for fourth but at 1.20 seconds back, neither ever truly threatened the Swiss sweep. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Odermatt (SUI\/St\u00f6ckli) took a huge step towards securing his third successive Audi FIS World Cup Downhill Crystal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2717,6346,1862,6347,41,17,1897],"class_list":{"0":"post-21659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-federation","9":"tag-fis","10":"tag-ski","11":"tag-snowboard","12":"tag-swiss","13":"tag-switzerland","14":"tag-winter-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}